Eating a lot of veggies does not mean just eating a lot of salads. I love cutting up some in-season veggies and tossing them with a bit of olive, flavored or seed oil, sprinkling a bit of chopped garlic over them with some Kinders The Blend or rosemary and thyme as well as salt and pepper and roasting them on a sheet pan at 425 for a few minutes. Roasting makes vegetables so sweet and takes just minutes. Add any meat on the pan or cook it any way you want. The air fryer is also good for roasting veggies. I don't like a lot of meat in the summer, just too heavy.
I have a hard time eating raw veggies since 3 surgeries on my colon. I love them, but they do not like me. This week was going to be busy, and to get more veggies without a lot of work, I chopped up a bunch of veg at the beginning of the week and made a delicious vegetable soup. I cheated and put chicken broth in it instead of vegetable broth because it is what I had. I started off dinner with a cup of soup which filled me up and made me eat a lot less. A couple of nights I tossed in some cooked chopped chicken from the freezer or cooked shrimp from the freezer and made a meal of it. I planned to have another cup if I still felt the need for more after dinner. I never did. I find the heat soothes me and quiets my cravings. I left enough for three days and put a cup each of room-temperature soup into freezer containers and froze them so I could pull out one every day that we were eating at home. I ate out three days this past week, when I usually don't eat out three times in three months. I guess that is how I stayed the same after eating out so much, because that always makes me gain weight. Even when it is hot outside, if the AC is on I love the comfort food of soup so I don't eat as much. Would something like that work for you?
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